Serious A54 crash in Cheshire East on 6 July 2018 at 08:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
Two Ford Fiestas and a New Holland agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A54 in Cheshire East at 08:20 on Friday 6 July 2018. The 29-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 20-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jul 2018
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19366, longitude -2.33358, in the CW4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070203366
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 54
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2014.
Slight
Nissan Pixo crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 13 February 2014
31 m awayRef 2014074042260
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 17 December 2014
34 m awayRef 2014074372942
Serious
Car crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 16 July 1986
37 m awayRef 1986076B20975
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 20 September 1997
71 m awayRef 1997077A41641
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 10 December 2016
164 m awayRef 2016076382906
Serious
Ford Maverick crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 18 October 2007
280 m awayRef 2007070353591
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: New Holland
Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,728 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2018070203366 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2018.